Inside the Imperial City of Jinling City.

The Shangshutai Yamen is also the only one in the vast majority of the Yamen in the south to set up the Yamen in the imperial city.

It's just that if you set up a yamen in the imperial city, it will inevitably usher in some cynicism.

Especially the yamen of Shangshutai, if it is a talented Shangshuling, even if the Shangshutai yamen is in the imperial city, it can also be able to gain a firm foothold.

But as far as the current Shangshuling is concerned, it is almost meaningless, this Shangshuling was originally born in the imperial examination, and he was also placed high hopes on the emperor, and when he did not enter Shangshutai, this guy's talent is still there.

However, since entering Shangshutai, somehow, a talented young man has become timid as a mouse, and he frequently makes mistakes in front of the emperor, and even some trivial things and low-level mistakes that no one can imagine can happen several times a day in this hand.

Therefore, since Shangshutai Yamen became the chief official, his status has plummeted, and Shang Shuling, who has the reputation of a small prime minister, can only run errands back and forth now, and he doesn't even dare to make a sound in front of everyone.

The officials who made the Shangshutai Yamen were usually because of the chief official, and they were eager to find a crack in the ground when they saw other colleagues.

Most of the officials in Shangshutai are composed of young people, mainly fresh blood, and there are few old faces.

After all, even if Shangshutai is Shangshuling, it is just a Tsing Yi official robe, and they are all old, how many of the people who have been in the sea for many years will come to Shangshutai?

Li Yifu is an exception.

At the age of twenty-one, Li Yifu won the top prize in the imperial examination of Nanli that year, and the scenery was unparalleled for a while, attracting the envy of many scholars.

Under the envious and adoring gaze of these people, Li Yifu did not hesitate to bow to Emperor Li, because it happened that the last round of his imperial examination was presided over by Emperor Lidi himself.

Therefore, Emperor Lidi can also be regarded as the master of Li Yifu, and this kind of karmic relationship will inevitably be branded as the fresh blood of the Emperor Lidi faction after Li Yifu's imperial examination.

And for these rumors, Li Yifu also laughed, invited himself into the palace, and after meeting the emperor, the edict of the emperor came down the next day.

Li Yifu, the champion of the new section, is the county guard of Jiangxia County.

The guard of a county, this official position is already a good treatment for the new champion, especially this is still the position of the county guard of Jiangxia County, as the north gate of the south departure, the emperor actually put his mind at ease and handed it over to a newcomer to govern and serve as the county guard.

After the edict came out, many people were puzzled by Li Yifu's treatment.

Because although the position of the county guard is good, as the champion of this year's imperial examination, Li Yifu can obviously enter the six departments, even if he starts from the grassroots level of the six departments, he will stay in Jinling after all, and now he was suddenly released to Jiangxia, and many people felt that this was a stumbling block for Li Yifu.

In the second year after Li Yifu took office, the Central Plains states formed a coalition army, united the Northern Empire Beigen and the Xikun Dynasty, and launched a vast offensive against Nanli.

As the county guard of Jiangxia County at the north gate, Li Yifu naturally took the lead in commanding the people to strengthen the city defenses and dig trenches overnight, and immediately sent a letter of help to the camp of the main battle legion of the south closest to Jiangxia County.

The letter for help, of course, was also sent to Jinling.

However, at that time, Jinling, but at the juncture of the alternation of imperial power, several princes, such as the current king of Nanyue, only had the throne that was only one step away from him in his eyes, as for Li Yifu's letter of help?

The stone sinks into the sea.

When the wind was uneven and Zhou Dunyi asked for the will of the first emperor and asked the eldest prince Li Dunmin to ascend the throne, the letter of help from Li Yifu, which was buried in Shangshutai, was refound.

But at that time, more than half a month had passed since Li Yifu sent a letter of help to Jinling.

Jiangxia had only more than 6,000 permanent troops at that time, and as for the garrisons in other border counties, there were very few, even if the main battle corps arrived in time, it could only be a drop in the bucket in the face of the huge number of millions of coalition troops.

At the beginning of the war, the territory of Nanli was full of flames and fell, and the Central Plains coalition army did not take much effort to kill the city of Jiangxia.

And the main battle corps, also because of the strange orders from Jinling, coupled with the misjudgment of its military master, mistakenly thought that the Central Plains coalition army would enter the south in batches from different routes, resulting in the main battle corps of Nanli with a number of 9,000 people, and all the troops were wiped out on the front line.

This is also the only main battle corps that has been completely wiped out in modern times, even if it is a number, it was annihilated in the war and became a victim of the struggle for imperial power in the rear.

In terms of the Central Plains Coalition Army, after the main battle corps of Nanli was wiped out, the momentum rose even more, and for a while, the counties and towns on the border of Nanli heard the wind and surrendered, and Jiangxia County was left with only a lonely city in Jiangxia City, supporting the last pass of Nanli.

After taking Jiangxia County, the Central Plains coalition army could invade the hinterland of Nanli on a large scale, and take all the wealth and population of Nanli as their own.

Even if Li Yifu learned about the battle on the front line, he did not lose all his courage immediately, Li Yifu quickly calmed down, and while continuing to supervise the reinforcement of the city defense, he kept gathering the stragglers who retreated from the front line.

In the end, by the time the Central Plains Coalition Army reached Jiangxia City, Li Yifu already had more than 8,000 available troops on hand.

Coupled with a letter of requisition from Li Yifu, Jiangxia City had another thousand young and strong people enlisted in the army.

Barely enough, the garrison of Jiangxia City reached the garrison of 10,000 people.

There are a lot of defenders of 10,000 people, even if it is Jiangxia City, which is wide and strong, there are quite a lot of defenders of 10,000 people.

But that also depends on who the opponent is.

The garrison of millions of Central Plains coalition troops, which barely reached 10,000 in the face of such numbers, seems insignificant.

Not only those people in the Central Plains Coalition Army laughed at Li Yifu's inadequacy, but even many generals and colonels in Jiangxia City thought that this battle was a battle to the death, and even if it was a death battle, they didn't know how many days they could defend.

It's very difficult, even if the Central Plains Coalition Army exchanges ten for one, Jiangxia City can't accept it.

However, the Central Plains coalition army accepted it, the number of countries, so that they didn't care about the sacrifice of the soldiers at all, and often those armies that attacked the city and took the lead belonged to some countries with weak Chinese power in the Central Plains, and those Central Plains countries like Zhao, Wei and Han were often only dispatched when it was time to pick the fruit.

However, such a practice will definitely cause dissatisfaction among some Central Plains countries in the coalition army, but due to the strength of the other party's national strength, everyone can only temporarily endure and swallow their anger, even if they are here, when they return to the Central Plains, the other party can send a large army to crusade against their own country.

Whether the national strength is strong or not determines their right to speak in the coalition forces.

However, even within such a coalition army full of disputes, it was still able to fight in the early stage of the war and collapse the army on the border in the south, and after seven or eight days of fighting, it was killed under Jiangxia City.

In the huge north, in the south, there is such a state as North Jingzhou, and in eight days, only one city in Jiangxia City is left in the hands of Nanli.

Only to the death.

When Li Yifu stood on the city gate and faced the millions of Central Plains coalition troops that could not be seen at a glance, he said these four words with a smile in a free and easy tone.

The 10,000-strong garrison, in the hands of a champion county guard in Li Yifu, created a miracle that shocked the top of Nanli.

stubbornly, blocking the offensive of the million-strong coalition army in the Central Plains for thirteen days.

For thirteen days, every day the Central Plains coalition army seemed to be dying, using the lives of the soldiers to pile up the lives of the soldiers in Jiangxia City.

Ten lives for one?

No, in the last few days, those guys from the Central Plains Coalition Army looked at Li Yifu's posture standing on the gate of Jiangxia City and still not falling, and they really wanted to eat his flesh and soak his bones.

They are now even willing to exchange twenty lives for one.

On the first day of the battle, the Nanli soldiers on the Jiangxia side were attacked by the coalition forces that were still full of momentum, because there were still more than 1,000 soldiers in the army who had retreated from the front line.

The atmosphere of fear spread into the defenders, and on the first day, Jiangxia almost lost the control of the city gate, and in the end, it was Li Yifu's momentum of going into battle with an iron sword to kill the enemy, and the morale of the sluggish Nanli was dissipated, and nearly 1,000 people were killed and 3,000 were injured, surviving the first day.

And that's just the first day.

The first day of the offensive had already caused Jiangxia City to lose one-tenth of its soldiers, and even more than one-fifth of its combat strength.

But what about the Central Plains Coalition Army?

Yes, there were a lot of enemies, but every time some of the Nanli soldiers at the city gate looked at the million-strong coalition army that was still like a dark cloud, they couldn't muster up their courage.

There are too many of them, that is, you can't kill them all.

The next day, the defense line outside Jiangxia City had been completely broken through, and the trenches were full of corpses of soldiers on both sides.

The trench was half a body deep, but it was filled with the corpses of the soldiers.

As night fell the next day, the offensive of the Central Plains coalition army retreated, and when Li Yifu counted the number of soldiers, he looked at the corpses and bloodstains everywhere on the city gate.

This champion Lang, the perseverance in his eyes, after seeing such a tragic scene, was like the blood stain of the Shura field, which made his eyes shake.

However, Li Yifu quickly put away such vacillation.

He is now the supreme commander of Jiangxia City, and the last hope of the north gate of Nanli is in his hands, not only the people in Jiangxia City, but also the tens of millions of ordinary people in Nanli behind him, their life and death are all in their own thoughts.

Defend to the death, only fight to the death.

The death of two thousand three and the serious wounding of nine hundred people once again added a layer of mist that could not be dissipated to the few defenders of Jiangxia City.

By the end of the war on the third day, Li Yifu's body was already wounded, and there was a gaping cut on his left arm, but he just wrapped a layer of bandages and didn't do anything more.

He counted the surviving defenders of Jiangxia City.

In just three days, the Jiangxia garrison, which originally had 10,000 defenders, now has less than 4,000 warriors, and even if it is less than 4,000 defenders, everyone is more or less injured.

Those seriously injured have also become to the point where they can't even hold their weapons.

However, the coalition forces outside the city are still as bottomless as they can see.

For three days, there was no news of any rescue from Jinling, and Li Yifu's mood had fallen to the bottom.

It's not that he hasn't heard of the situation of the old emperor, and he has already imagined the worst-case scenario, but when he is faced with this situation, he is still a little unacceptable.

Watching the front-line soldiers fight for the future of Nanli, but those in the rear are still fighting for the throne that seem meaningless to their current self.

Dirty, these political competitions made Li Yifu disgusted with those big people for the first time.

By the end of the seventh day of the war, Jiangxia City was already crumbling.

There are less than a thousand warriors in the city.

This is the number after the number of seriously injured is also included.

Li Yifu's face was not very good-looking, the injury on his left arm had begun to suppurate, and there was also a knife on his cheek, looking at the Nanli soldier who couldn't stand steadily in front of him.

He no longer knew how he would respond to tomorrow's coalition offensive.

Closing his eyes, Li Yifu seemed to have accepted his fate.

He relied on 10,000 people to face the offensive of a million troops and held out for seven days, but he was defeated in the hands of those big men in the rear who only cared about fighting for power.

It seems that he, like the main battle army, has become a victim of political power.

Ha, I don't know if my bargaining chip, in the eyes of those big people, is it really worthless?

It seems that they also know the reality of Jiangxia City's current reality, and the Central Plains Coalition Army also has the idea of recruiting this young official from Nanli who has blocked their footsteps for seven days by himself.

On the eighth day, the Central Plains Coalition sent people to talk to Li Yifu, trying to recruit Li Yifu to join their coalition army.

Li Yifu agreed.

Yes, Li Yifu smiled bitterly and agreed to the envoy's request.

He was willing to join the coalition, but he had one request.

Jiangxia City, he Li Yifu has been governing for two years, he doesn't want to see Jiangxia City like this when he leaves, so he hopes that the coalition army can give him three days, let him have a good rest in Jiangxia City, and also say to those Nanli soldiers that after three days, he Li Yifu will definitely give Jiangxia City to the coalition army.

The coalition forces did not doubt Li Yifu, because in their opinion, Jiangxia City was now crumbling, and they only needed to push lightly to take Jiangxia City.

For this kind of talent, the big names on the coalition side are full of admiration.

So, the coalition agreed.

But three days later, on the day when the appointed date came, when the envoy came to the gate of Jiangxia City with a smile, he was greeted by an arrow piercing his heart and died.

Yes, Li Yifu never thought about defecting to the coalition army from the beginning, the reason why he pretended to agree to the envoy of the coalition army and asked for three days was just to buy a certain amount of time for himself and Jinling, although three days was very short, but in Li Yifu's view, this is already the maximum he can do, whether it succeeds or not, he can only resign himself to fate.

In three days, Li Yifu mobilized the people of Jiangxia City to temporarily build an inner city in Jiangxia City.

It's easy, but it's enough to buy some time.

Because of Li Yifu's deception, the anger of the Central Plains Coalition Army was monstrous, and it was already a great anger for them that their millions of coalition troops were trapped under Jiangxia City for seven days, and now Li Yifu played another trick like this, and their hatred for Li Yifu had reached its peak.

Swore to kill Li Yifu, this is an order given by the old commander of the coalition army.

On the eleventh day of the offensive, the Central Plains coalition army did not engage in cannon fodder when they came up, and they did not engage in the method of encircling three and one, four city gates, four directions, and tens of thousands of offensive echelons in each direction kept launching the most fierce offensive towards Jiangxia City.

In less than half an hour, the outer gate of Jiangxia City was taken down by them.

And this speed is also because Li Yifu thought of the anger generated by the Central Plains coalition army being coaxed by himself, so the arrangement in the outer city is only very few, and it is only a long-range shooting, and when the Central Plains coalition army is killed under the city, the city gate can be removed with a little resistance.

Unnecessary losses, in the eyes of Li Yifu, who now has the number of troops on hand, even if he has temporarily recruited people, does not need to be forced.

Even if these unnecessary losses can be played in a ratio of one for three, in Li Yifu's view, it is a huge loss for them.

In the street fighting, Li Yifu sent the ordinary people in Jiangxia City out of the city one by one under the pretext of surrender within three days, and the Central Plains coalition army at that time thought that Jiangxia City was already in the bag, so for these ordinary people who went out of the city, they just checked it at random, and found that there was nothing unusual, so they let them go.

Now that the people in the city have almost moved out, for Li Yifu, who is now at a huge disadvantage in numbers, the biggest effect of street fighting can completely allow him to play a role.

Some small institutions arranged in the outer city slowed down the pace of the Central Plains Alliance's attack, and the Nanli soldiers who were killed from the side from time to time also made them feel miserable.

Although the loss is far less than the battle of the city, it is better than the loss of time.

And the million troops of the Central Plains Coalition Army could be killed in Jiangxia City at one time?

Besides, this is still a street battle, and 10,000 people can almost fill the entire battlefield of street fighting.

It weakened the advantage of the coalition army in the number of troops, so by the time the Central Plains coalition army came out of the street fighting, the time had already passed a day and a half.

On the thirteenth day, Li Yifu's left arm could no longer be raised, and his right arm was no better.

Holding the long sword in his mouth, the blood stains on Li Yifu's face and the bloodstained armor on his body, he just stood on the inner city, looking at the upcoming coalition soldiers under the city fiercely.

This is the last thing he can do for Nanli, right?

When the gate of the inner city was blasted open and the city wall was broken, Li Yifu looked at the coalition soldiers who were killing him, he didn't have any strength in his body, and he fell to the ground weakly, leaning on the corpse of a Nanli soldier who had been shot.

Li Yifu smiled miserably and looked at the coalition soldiers who were getting closer and closer to him.

Are you going to throw your life here?

But something unexpected happened.

A huge wave like a tiger's roar came, and Li Yifu suddenly stared into the air.

I saw that at this time, there was a person in the air with indifferent eyes looking at the coalition soldiers below.

This person is the wind is uneven.

The power of a sword, the wind was uneven and killed the soldiers who rushed to Li Yifu, and the momentum of the sword like a rainbow made even if it was only one person Feng Buping, who drank back a thousand people and the coalition army retreated a few steps backwards, you look at me, I look at yours, no one dares to be the first to step forward.

Feng Buping roared angrily, and then Li Yifu only saw a dazzling sword light flashing in front of his eyes, and in the next second, Li Yifu was completely powerless and fainted.

By the time Li Yifu opened his eyes again, the time had already come to two days later.

From the soldiers who took care of him on the side, Li Yifu learned about it.

Just when he was only one step away from death, Feng Buping came out and drank those soldiers back, and then the Central Plains coalition army outside the city also saw the Nanli army that was killing not far away.

Zhou Dunyi, with the army of Nanli, came.

Morale was unavailable, and the old commander of the Central Plains Coalition Army could only sigh a pity and order the whole army to retreat.

Nanli's army has now arrived, and the soldiers of the Central Plains coalition army are now in a scattered formation, if this is the case and Nanli start a decisive battle, the loss of the coalition army must be unimaginable.

Moreover, the army led by the people from the south rushed straight towards the coalition army as if they had some confidence.

Such an unbelievable move made the old commander of the coalition think that Nanli still had any hole cards that were useless, and he didn't want to make trouble, so he could only order the withdrawal of the army.

In fact, if he had known the truth, he would have regretted it.

Because Zhou Dunyi's move was just a bluff.

Zhou Dunyi is gambling, betting that the marshal of the coalition army is not an idiot.

If the marshal of the coalition army was a fool, seeing that he was sent to the door like this, he must not doubt him, and he directly confronted Zhou Dunyi.

In fact, Zhou Dunyi's army at that time was only a cavalry team of 9,000 people.

The follow-up army is still on the road twenty miles away from here.

Fortunately, this marshal of the coalition army was not a fool, thinking that Zhou Dunyi had any hole cards to dare to directly rush directly into the million-strong army, so he ordered a retreat for the sake of safety.

However, after entering the city and seeing the fainted Li Yifu, Zhou Dunyi's cheeks still had a touch of seriousness.

Before he came here, he couldn't imagine that someone would be able to rely on the garrison of 10,000 people to resist the 13-day offensive of the million-strong coalition army.

Looking at the corpses everywhere inside and outside Jiangxia City, you don't have to think about it to know what kind of bloody battle has been experienced here.